Coat lapel and collar regulator.



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ABPLIOATION FILED 001 5. 1906.

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WILLIAM HENRY OLING, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

COAT LAPEL AND COLLAR REGULATOR- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed October 6, 1905. Serial No. 281,684-

To all whom it may concern:

- n Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY CLING, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Charleston, in the county of Charleston andState of South Carolina, have made an Improvement in Coat-Stays, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of apparatus or devicesemployed for holding the front breadths of coats and vests distended orstretched in such manner as to prevent wrinkling or sagging.

My invention is an elastic stay adapted to be detachably applied to acoat in the manner hereinafter specified, whereby the lapels areprevented from rolling back at the lower end.

The details of construction and application of the device are ashereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective View of my improved stay, and Fig. 2 is aperspective view illustrating the practical application of the stay to acoat.

The stay 3 is made of a narrow thin strip of steel, and a distinguishingfeature of the same is that it is provided at one end with a singlecentral point 4 and at the opposite end with two points 5, which arespaced apart the width of the strip. The strip is applied to a coatbetween the binding or edge 11 and the lower edge of an armhole 10, thepoints being entered in the cloth and lining, respectively, and theelasticity of the strip tending to make it curve slightly outward inconformity to the natural shape of the body of the wearer. The singlepoint 4 serves to prevent any longitudinal inward movement of the strip,and it is set in such a place that it is slightly below the lower edgeof the armhole 10. The two points 5 efi'ectually prevent the stay fromturning or rotating on itself, so that it is held flat against the clothand lining of the coat, while they take, so to speak, a broader hold onthe cloth adjacent to the binding, so that there is less tendency of thecloth to draw and wrinkle at that point than would be the case if thestay were attached at and had a single point. The detachability andadjustability of the stay 3 is advantageous, since it permits the stayto be set in exactly the right position to adapt itself to the coat andlength of lapels, as well as the form of the wearer. It holds the frontportions of a coat in perfect shape, so that it presents the desiredappearance and is not liable to fly open and cannot roll back, as wouldbe the case if the stay were dispensed with.

What I claim is As an improved article of manufacture, the coat-stayconstructed of a thin narrow strip of spring-steel having at one end asingle central point and at the opposite end two points which are spacedapart the width of the strip, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY CLING.

Witnesses:

R. H. DURYEA, F. O. MARSHALL.

